Thanks Andrei,
the group exists for a long time actually. I did not want to
advertise it until it is ready for what it was made... :)
My idea when I made it was to gather professionals who use D *in
production environments*, and eventually make this group a
convenient place to post important news related to the D and its
community, job announces, good ideas, etc.
I also believe the logo i made is prety elegant and I am
confident the group will constantly grow.
Good thing about it is that technology professionals from other
communities will be able to see D-related discussions, and
hopefully get interested. ;)
I see the D community steadily grow for last decade, and I humbly
believe D is ready for enterprise use.
Kind regards

and eventually make this group a convenient place to post important news
related to the D and its community, job announces, good ideas, etc.

A linkedin group for those who like that sort of thing is one thing, but
D-related announcements, ideas, discussion, etc. belong here in the D
newsgroup so they're available to everyone, not hidden behind linkedin's
gates, and all in one unified place. We don't need to be fracturing the D
community.

and eventually make this group a convenient place to post important news
related to the D and its community, job announces, good ideas, etc.

A linkedin group for those who like that sort of thing is one thing, but
D-related announcements, ideas, discussion, etc. belong here in the D
newsgroup so they're available to everyone, not hidden behind linkedin's
gates, and all in one unified place. We don't need to be fracturing the D
community.

Nick, nobody said LinkedIn is going to be the *main place* for
announcements. That would be, as you said, a bad idea. I doubt we will have
any serious discussion there that can't be available on our news server.
However, based from my LinkedIn experience with other FLOSS groups, it is
very much possible that, for an example, job-announcements by some of the
future recruiters, are going to be posted on LinkedIn only. You will not
expect someone from a recruiting agency to go through various newsgroups and
post announcements, do you? :) - I certainly would not.

My idea when I made it was to gather professionals who use D
*in production environments*

Does that mean you shouldn't join if D only supports a product
going to production, and isn't officially software used in the
company?

Everybody is welcome (otherwise I would make the group invite-only), but the
idea is to have more professionals there, than just enthusiasts who use D in
some toy project...
New D users will either become professionals after some time of evaluation
and adoption, or they will give up D. I honestly do not think the LinkedIn
group needs people who forget D after few weeks of trying. :) It is also
misleading when a recruiter sees someone a member of the DDN who never wrote
any serious piece of D code. Do you agree?

My idea when I made it was to gather professionals who use D
*in production environments*

Does that mean you shouldn't join if D only supports a product
going to production, and isn't officially software used in the
company?

Everybody is welcome (otherwise I would make the group invite-only), but
the
idea is to have more professionals there, than just enthusiasts who use D
in
some toy project...
New D users will either become professionals after some time of evaluation
and adoption, or they will give up D. I honestly do not think the LinkedIn
group needs people who forget D after few weeks of trying. :)

No argument with that.

It is also
misleading when a recruiter sees someone a member of the DDN who never
wrote
any serious piece of D code. Do you agree?

That seems to be based on the false (but disturbingly common around
drooling-HR-monkey circles) myth that a candidate with, for example, 10*X
amount of experience in language Y is better than a candidate with X
experience in each of 10*Y languages. Or at least it would seem to help
propagate that myth.
HR-morons have this retarded idea that all programming langauges are
completely different from each other and have very little transferrable
skills, which of course, any real programmer knows to be an obvious load of
complete bullshit. Besides, 9 tmes out of 10, the only thing those
mouth-breathers in HR bother to look at is degrees (which, of course, is
even more retarded).